flynn23 wrote:

k wrote
Domestic terrorism. It's not just for abortion clinics anymore!

Where's Homeland Security on this one? Why is it that Boston PD mobilized an anti-terrorist campaign because of some neon signs but the NSA isn't tapping the phones at the library to see who's calling in these threats? Come on people. Walk the walk if you're going to talk the talk.

Sadly, we all know the answers to that question.

1. Homeland Security is, by and large, not well run and incapable of dealing with it's mission.

2. There's political liability in going after some bomb-threatening wackjob when that wackjob is, as Mike the Usurper notes, part of the administration's core constituency.

3. Targeting homegrown psychos doesn't play as well on the evening news, and doesn't generate nearly enough fear to serve the intended purpose.

4. People are fucking retarded.

RE: Boing Boing: Creep's threats shut down library reading program